Jer has said the capability is pretty much there, so I think the next thing is try to put together a proof of concept. My C is rusty and my day job is hectic, so I'm unlikley to be able to do anything for a while, so if you want to get stuck in feel free.
Al. On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 22:45, Tim Ferguson wrote: > I really, really like this idea, although I would not consider myself an > expert yet I am willing to help out/move it along in this arena. > > Tim Ferguson > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Al > Sutton > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 1:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [JDEV] The Important Things > > Why not add authentication and message relaying to the S2S protocol. > > This would give four advantages; > > 1. Any user could log into any machine and the server would relay the > authentication request to the relevant machine to handle authentication. > > 2. The messages for that user would be relayed to the server they are > logged in to and then forwarded on to them. > > 3. Clusters or farms could be constructed to server a a single jabber > community and the load shared between them. > > 4. This would only involve a change to the S2S protol and servers > supporting it (of which there are few), and would leave the C2S protocol > unchanged and thus not require any client changes. > > Comments? > > Al. > > On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 15:50, Ashvil wrote: > > > I found that we could use some kind of a gateway - > > > people connect to one server ( for example jabbber.org ) autheticate - > > > get a token/session id - and then continue with a server > > > l1.l4.dddljfds.jabbber.org that are real jabber servers. > > <snip> > > > > Any ideas that can help in scalability are welcome. If we can use a pool > of > > cheap PCs to build a scalable jabber network, then even more valuable then > > having One big Server with Gigs of memory. > > > > This will require some changes in the Jabber protocol. The MSN protocol > does > > something like this, but takes this one step ahead by letting you connect > to > > any server in the pool, which then refers you to the right server that can > > authenticate you. If you make logging in a two-step process, you can solve > > this problem but that would mean changing all the Jabber clients and also > > the S2S communication in the Jabber server. > > > > Anyway, this is an area that the Jabber server developers are the best > folks > > to comment on. > > > > Regards, > > Ashvil > > > > _______________________________________________ > > jdev mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
